Data Analyst

HSBC Group; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

HSBC Group is seeking a senior Data & Analytics role within the Financial Crime CDAO to govern data products across FC data lakes and cloud platforms. You will shape data strategy, lead analytics work, and collaborate with FC Analysts, Investigators and Data Scientists to improve crime detection models and insights.

The role emphasizes agile delivery, stakeholder collaboration, and governance of data environments, including security, quality, and change impact assessments.

Qualifications

• Experience analyzing large and complex datasets to derive actionable insights.
• Proficiency with Hadoop or cloud technologies (GCP preferred).
• Fluency in SQL and Python for data analysis.
• Experience in financial services or crime domain desirable.
• Ability to translate business needs into data-driven solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver data products and analytics for FC data lakes and cloud environments.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, engineers and senior team members to refine requirements.
• Track progress and manage delivery against the Product backlog and roadmaps.
• Support Product Owner in creating epics and user stories.
• Drive Agile team performance and measure outcomes.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data analytics

Agile methods

Stakeholder management

Financial crime domain knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Hadoop

GCP

Data visualization tools

Job description

The Financial Crime (FC) Chief Data and Analytics Office (CDAO) role is to manage data products, processes and applications on the Compliance/FC Data Lakes and Cloud Environments and define the strategy for their future evolution. This encompasses the end-to-end design, modelling and delivery of enhanced datasets to optimise the performance of our crime detection models and yield the greatest possible insight for all users, including FC Analyst, Investigator, Data Scientist and MI communities, many of whom we collaborate with closely. The team is also responsible for regulating the data environment, including platform architecture, management and configuration, security and data quality. In this role, you will:

• Uses a range of data tools (including SQL and python on Hadoop and GCP environments) to perform analysis/analytics tasks on a broad range of dataset to yield insight which informs design of business and technical processes and data assets.
• Demonstrates traceability of functional and non-functional requirements and solution design.
• Create analysis of data-driven product functionality.
• Provides insight as to how a Data Analyst should learn and progress throughout the organisation.
• Drives adoption of the practice across the Data Analyst community.
• Works with stakeholders, engineers and senior team members to define the problem statements, questions and requirements that the role holder and team will deliver
• Manages and evaluates the change impact assessments of proposed requirements.
• Understands and challenges the implications of change such as dependencies, feasibility, scope, outputs, and process.
• Manages and provides domain expertise to support design development activities; e.g. reviewing technical documentation and working with data and technical specialists from stakeholder teams to design their capabilities (including models and business processes)
• Manages and helps prepare for Design Authorities and other forums and works with the development team to ensure challenges raised are addressed.
• Manages, tracks and reports delivery progress against requirements.
• Works with the Product Owner to manage, define and track performance measures. Supports and guides the Product Owner to create/evolve Product roadmap, creation of epics and writing of user stories and managing the product backlog.
• Helping define and track metrics and Key Performance Indicators for the product.
• Drive the Agile Team performance and outcome metrics as required, building and using their expertise in Agile.
  Knowledge and experience analysing large and complex datasets to yield actionable technical and business insight
• Experience with Hadoop and/or Cloud Technologies (ideally GCP) and a willingness to build knowledge in these areas quickly
• Fluency in SQL for data analysis/analytics with experience designing more advanced queries
• Expertise in python or other scripting languages desirable. Learning and using python (or alternative languages in future) for data analysis/analytics purposes is a requirement of the role
• Working knowledge and familiarity with financial services organisations and typical customer products
• Familiarity with data security, privacy and access considerations when dealing with sensitive data from multiple jurisdictions
• Previous experience working in a financial (or wider) crime domain desirable
• Ability to understand complex and unfamiliar problems within the role domain with a broad range of business and technical constraints and dependencies, designing data driven solutions to address them
• Broad understanding of portfolio of design projects.
• Broad understanding of technical tools may be required dependent on the scope of the Agile Team.
• Provides extended expertise in process and is considered an authority on data and how to use it to further the Value Stream business objectives.
• Broad understanding of risk exposure to the bank and helping senior colleagues manage it.
• Assures delivery through the entire life cycle of the project of user requirements through to live.
• Drives measurable continuous improvement into all delivery environments across all disciplines.
• Ensuring team spirit: strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders.
• Good time-management skills.
• Ability to influence team senior leadership and business stakeholders, gaining their backing for design or project decisions.
  If you're looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC, and fulfil your potential - whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or an exciting new direction, we offer opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.